Halloween falls on a a Saturday this year, all the better for spooky fun. There are so many haunted houses, costume parades and general mayhem to choose from that we put together a few of our favorite events to make it easier to plan a bewitching evening (and pre-Halloween partying).
Steampunk Invasion
After last year’s blowout [...]

Big changes are happening at two of our favorite arts and design spaces, Gowanus Studio Space and 3rd Ward.
The first, Gowanus Studio Space, is moving — and they’re throwing a party to celebrate (and fundraise for) the project. The artist studio and gallery space has outgrown their current digs, where they offer printmaking and wookworking [...]

WEDNESDAY: Open Air Reading
Park Lit, a summer reading series curated by NYC lit mag editors kicks off tonight at Ft. Greene Park at 6:30pm with Elizabeth Gaffney (a former editor of the Paris Review), Michael Schwartz, and L.J. Davis.
Summer Symphony
Pack a picnic, grab a blanket, and head to Prospect Park for the New York Philharmonic’s [...]

This weekend’s good weather restored our faith in summer, so we cherry-picked three past BBs filled with ideas for outdoor fun.
If By Land
Prime picnic spots from Bay Ridge to LIC

If By Sea
Canoe, kayak, pedal boat and Water Taxi your way around the borough

If By Bike
Three epic rides to Brooklyn beaches, cheap Queens eats, and Hudson [...]

Contrary to what you might have read, Beer Wars doesn’t feature “small brewers flying….into Anheuser-Busch’s corporate Death Star and destroying it with proton torpedoes made of hops until all the beer nerds dance around like Ewoks in their gastropub village in the trees.” (Though we’d love to watch that. You reading this George?)
What you will [...]

WEDNESDAY: Previously on…
See the season finale of Lost on the big screen at our party at the Bell House tonight. The brilliant band Previously on Lost will recap all of season five to date, we’ll have free Orchard Station Rum Punch from 7-8 pm (sponsored by Sailor Jerry Rum), and at 9pm we’ll broadcast the [...]

THURSDAY: Liquor and Literati
Novelist and New Yorker editor Ben Greenman (author of the soon-to-be-released Please Step Back) and Robbie Goolrick (author of the critically acclaimed A Reliable Wife) read at Pete’s Candy Store on Thursday night.
Grand Escapes
Need tips for great trips close to home? Come to Book Court at 7pm for a Q&A with Brooklyn [...]

Ever since it since it launched last November, we’ve been spitting out our coffee from laughing so hard at the blog FIPS (also know as Fucked in Park Slope), a collaborative effort by Erica and Benjamin, with video content by Greg. Since their blog is both loved and hated with a passion, they declined to [...]

BB has cared for many houseplants over the years, but our air plants are the coolest ones yet.
If you’re familiar with them, you know their scientific name is Tillandsia, that they’re a member of the Bromeliad family, and are known in general as an epiphyte — something that gets all of its moisture and nutrients [...]

Unless you live in Prospect-Lefferts Gardens; visit it because your child attends its progressive Maple Street School; or read Across the Park, this largely Caribbean neighborhood — just south of Crown Heights and east of Prospect Park – is hard for “inner” Brooklynites to visualize. So BB reached out to friends Kelly Kingman and Paul [...]